Northwest History. State History. Box 27. World War 1.

Jones Wants to Know.
The thought struck several senators
today that this bill might offer
an opportunity for granting relief to
their outraged constituents who
going to lose money through over
production. So they went at it with amendments with the usual results.
Some got through and some fell out
side the breastworks.
Senator Chamberlain, in charge of
the bill, gave his opinion that they
were taken care of and Senator Mc-
Kellar pointed to the language in the
bill, which he asserted fitted the case
of the spruce producers exactly and
'""" 3 senior senator from Washington I
.s satisfied.
Henderson Offers Amendment.
Then Senator Henderson of Nevada'
offered an amendment referring to
the production of rare metals, which
couched in such innocent
uage that most senators did not
7 what it was about and let it
jgh, to the delight of western
tig men, who actually face terrific
a through bad faith on the part
of the government. The Henderson
amendment is really a bill prepared
in the bureau of mines to permit that
bureau to extend to producers of
chromite, pyrites, manganese, tungs-
! ten and other metals provisions of
t previous legislation providing for
purchase by the government at a
previously guaranteed price for these
products. Miners had expended great
sums in Washington, Oregon, California and elsewhere in developing
mining properties and had only begun
to produce when the war ended and
they learned that the war industries
board, contrary to promises, had imported large quantities, result .;
depreciation of the market. The Henderson amendment will save them

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Jones Wants to Know.
The thought struck several senators
today that this bill might offer
an opportunity for granting relief to
their outraged constituents who
going to lose money through over
production. So they went at it with amendments with the usual results.
Some got through and some fell out
side the breastworks.
Senator Chamberlain, in charge of
the bill, gave his opinion that they
were taken care of and Senator Mc-
Kellar pointed to the language in the
bill, which he asserted fitted the case
of the spruce producers exactly and
'""" 3 senior senator from Washington I
.s satisfied.
Henderson Offers Amendment.
Then Senator Henderson of Nevada'
offered an amendment referring to
the production of rare metals, which
couched in such innocent
uage that most senators did not
7 what it was about and let it
jgh, to the delight of western
tig men, who actually face terrific
a through bad faith on the part
of the government. The Henderson
amendment is really a bill prepared
in the bureau of mines to permit that
bureau to extend to producers of
chromite, pyrites, manganese, tungs-
! ten and other metals provisions of
t previous legislation providing for
purchase by the government at a
previously guaranteed price for these
products. Miners had expended great
sums in Washington, Oregon, California and elsewhere in developing
mining properties and had only begun
to produce when the war ended and
they learned that the war industries
board, contrary to promises, had imported large quantities, result .;
depreciation of the market. The Henderson amendment will save them